Monday, October 25, 2010

AE 422c - the light of the morning

AE 422c [12]
The spirit of Jehovah spoke in me,
the God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me,
As the light of the morning when the sun rises,
a morning without clouds;
from the brightness after rain comes grass out of the earth.

(II Samuel 23:2-4)

"The God of Israel" and "the Rock of Israel" mean the Lord,
and because He is the sun of the angelic heaven,
and because all Divine truth which illustrates angels and people,
and gives intelligence and works reformation,
proceeds from Him as a sun and flows in,
so it is said "as the light in the morning when the sun rises,
a morning without clouds;
from the brightness after rain comes grass out of the earth;"
"the light in the morning when the sun rises"
signifying Divine truth from the Lord as a sun;
"a morning without clouds"
signifying the purity of that truth;
"rain" its influx,
and "grass out of the earth" the consequent intelligence and reformation;
for these are signified by "grass"
because grass springs out of the earth
by the action of the sun of the world after rain,
and intelligence is from the Lord as a sun through the influx of Divine truth.

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